Orange is such a happy color!

Croppings of works on paper from Oysterville

What was intended to be merely a warm-up for working on my canvases in Oysterville turned into a two-day struggle on paper. The white "flower", below, is cropped from a larger painting on paper that went through numerous iterations and ended up with a pale background. The turquoise and orange, also cropped, was completed in one evening. They both became more exciting with a little help from Photoshop (above).

Another painting in progress...

Well, I took the large ring and cube painting to Oysterville intending to finish it, but I wasn't brave enough to continue working on it. So....I started a new, smaller painting. Now I have two unfinished works to deal with! The numbers and letters are from a railroad sign along the tracks that lead to Bellingham. 16" x 20"

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Happy spring!!

Work in Progress

I'm halfway into this painting. It's 30 x 40. Have to put some more time into the left half of the painting before determining what happens next on the right side.

Relief prints compliments of yesteryear.

This weekend, a brief stop in an antiques store yielded a couple of interesting kitchen items from the '30s or '40s and set me off in an entirely different direction than planned in my "studio." Here are a few of the prints in progress.

Acrylic paintings

Here are two paintings from a couple of years ago. Both are 30" x 40". Unfortunately, the lighting is not particularly good on either of them.

India Silks

Here are some cropped images of decorative papers that I worked on last weekend. The full sheets were 18" x 24". I was thinking of beautiful sari silks from India while I was painting and printing them. I love the quality of the gold gouache paint, which of course, is not truly apparent in these scanned images.